Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

[Beastly Boy]

71. Your OP cites The Guardian: "Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says"

Here is the timeline of the BBC news feed:

02:38 - "thousands of Palestinians had gathered near a humanitarian aid distribution centre when Israeli tanks approached and opened fire on the crowd. "

02:54 - "The bodies of the dead and wounded have been taken on donkey carts from the site that was hit near a US-funded aid distribution centre in Rafah in southern Gaza.

4:10 - "BBC Verify has been scouring social media for footage purporting to show scenes from this morning. So far, much of the video is of bodies being carried on horse carts and in the back of lorries to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, rather than of the actual incidents unfolding."

4:39 - "It’s not clear at this moment whether the deceased are people who have been killed in today’s incident or not. But we’re trying to establish the facts and we’ll bring you the latest information as we get it. "

Your OP appears at 5:02. The header of your OP: "Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says"

5:09 - "We've just received an update from the Palestinian Red Crescent, in which they say their teams have transported 23 fatalities and 23 injured people from the aid distribution point in Rafah."

6:11 - "Reports of deaths and injuries 'false and fabricated' - Gaza Humanitarian Foundation"

8:01 - "Exact circumstances of today's incident remain unclear"

12:00 - "Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says initial findings show its forces "did not fire at civilians while they were near or within" the aid distribution site. In a statement, it called reports suggesting otherwise “false” and urged the media to “be cautious" with information published by Hamas."

12:36 - "One Palestinian who said he was there said that chaos broke out among the huge crowd and that Israeli forces opened fire as the situation got out of control."

and

"Whatever did happen, it is clear that at least one medical facility, the Nasser hospital, received a large number of casualties, with a doctor telling the BBC that many had bullet wounds.

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Your OP was posted an hour after BBC verified that the reports of casualties at the food distribution center were false, and you, some 14 hours later, have yet to acknowledge that your OP is based on false information.

The "local Palestinian journalist" in the 2:38 report turning into "One Palestinian" in the 12:36 report alone is a retraction. And the whole sequence walks the story back from ""thousands of Palestinians had gathered near a humanitarian aid distribution centre when Israeli tanks approached and opened fire on the crowd. " to "Exact circumstances of today's incident remain unclear", something that should have been said at 2:38, shows a clear overall walking back pattern.